Description
Artwork Size: 14×9.5, Medium: Pen and ink, Location Depicted in Artwork: Rogers, AR, Artist Statement: This is an interpretive pen and ink of the First United Methodist Church of Rogers, illustrating the influence and outreach that religion brought to the settlement of the Arkansas Territory. Religious establishments brought a sense of stability and permanence to communities, while reaching beyond their walls to help the populations that settled around them. The First United Methodist Church, built by the architect A. O. Clarke in 1908, represents a 111 year-old legacy of community outreach. Renowned for its stained glass windows designed by Thomas E. Gaytee depicting the story of Christianity, the church is shown extending beyond the boundaries of design and neoclassic architecture to intertwine with the presence of nature, a representation of early Native American spirituality.
